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The Indian government has ordered smartphone makers to preinstall its Sanchar Saathi app on all devices, a move that is raising fresh privacy concerns.

Gradium, a startup spawned out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday.

You can imagine how this is all going over in Silicon Valley, where the libertarian ethos runs deep.

The move is being characterized as a shake-up, but was seemingly inevitable in retrospect.

The promise is AI that’s uniquely helpful because it knows you. But the risk is AI that feels more like surveillance than service.

The move is a loss for homebuyers, who through Zillow had ready access to a property’s climate risks scores from First Street.

Shopify was down for many merchants this morning, preventing them from processing transactions. It appears to be fixed now.

Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas this week, and you can follow the keynotes live right here.

“We knew it was niche… and ultimately, we weren’t able to turn it into the vision I had,” Marques Brownlee said.

“I pinch myself going to work every day,” one 51-year-old says of his new supervisor role overseeing 200 workers at a data center site.

New planned data centers promise to consume even more energy than expected. Meanwhile, a grid monitor is blaming such growth for high electricity prices.

Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer’s service.

This year, the whimsical holiday app comes to iPhone and adds a snow effect for Mac users.

Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential. 

Deezer launched its version of Spotify Wrapped to give listeners an overview of their top tracks and artists.

The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble.

On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus wasn’t used.

Adam Joseph was shocked when Mark Cuban replied to his email with an inquisition full of questions.

The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures.

E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.

CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn’t “in the space industry; we’re in-space industry,” he said. Space is “just another place to ship to.”

James Cameron’s movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology, but that doesn’t make him a fan of generative AI.

David Sacks’ role as President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar could work out very well for his investments, according to a new report. However, Sacks fired back, calling the story a “nothing burger.”

It’s no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the worlds of business and tech.

TechCrunch went behind the scenes of a three-party partnership between Irish drone delivery company Manna, Doordash-owned food delivery platform Wolt, and food startup Huuva.

Flights were delayed and cancelled globally after Airbus ordered fixes to 6,000 of its A320 series planes, according to The Guardian. The company said it’s taking action because “analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.” Citing … Read more

American consumers spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, according to data from Adobe Analytics, which says it tracks more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail websites.

Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

Though LLMs might not use explicitly biased language, they may infer your demographic data and display implicit biases, researchers say.